Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-07-07

HE Queen'S JuDllee IeStlYiIIeS Wero
begun in Canada on the Both.
THE iron orkers' scale b as been signed
and strike averted
THE estimated reduction Of the public
debt in June is SIS, 100000.
ILLINOIS live stock shippers and the
railroads have settled their differences
amicably.
In the British House of Commons on the
30th the Irish Crimes Amendment bill
was put through the report stage.
DIRECTORS of the Vanderbilt roads met
at New York on the 3Oth and declared
dividends on all.
A CAVERN filled with remains of muir.
dered PEOPLE has been found near Cook.
vile, Tenn.
TIE National Federation of Trades las
espoused the cause Of the strikers in the
building trades of Chicago.
THOMAS BALLARD, sent to the Albany
penitentiary in 1875 for counterfeiting, has
been pard oned by the President
HORRIBLE brutality is being shown by
the investigation to have prevailed in the
Wards Island On. Y. lunatic asylum.
CHAEL RoRK, the West Shore express
robber, was sentenced at Utica, N. Y,
on the 30th, to twenty years hard labor
in Auburn prison.
TIE New Re aland Hotel, a bank and
twenty two shops have been destroyed by
fire at Blenheim, n. q. The loss is $780,
010.
JOHN SMITH, turner by occupation,
committed suicide in the New York city
prison on the 30th by hanging. He was
| committed June s6 for burglary. He was
thirty years old.
DELEGATES from the patriarchies of the
Grand Union Order Oid-Fellows Of Ohio
and West Virginia, constituting the Ohio
Grand lodge, met at Wheeling, w. Va,
on the Both, and formed a patriarchial
regiment.
FORTY employees of the Government
printing Office, principally IN the binding
and folding departments, were discharged
on the 30th.
MANAGER JoHN STETsoN of the Boston
Globe theater, who is also largely inden-
titled with various amusement enter
prises elsewhere, was married at Boston
on the 30th to Miss katherine Stokes.
Mr.. D. II. BATES, president and general
manager Of the Baltimore & Ohio Tie G.
graph Company, declares that there is nc
| truth in the rumors current in Wall street
that the Baltimore & Ohio lines have been
sold to the Western Union.
THE mercantile agency of R G. Dun q
! Co., of New York, reports that for the
| first half of 1856 the failures in the United
States are 1912, against s. 156 for the same
| period in the previous year, showing de-
| cline of PA.
CHIEF ENGINEER HENRY LEE SNYDER OF
| the Navy, superintendent OF the State.
War and Navy department building, died
suddenly at Washington on the Both of
hemorrhage of the lungs. He was about
| fifty years Of age and leaves widow and
several children.
THR Department of State has been In
| formed by the Consul of the United
hot hi ion
| of objects relating to the art of music is
| to be held in that city from the 1st Of
| Septem Der to the 18th of October next,
| and that foreign exhibits will be gladly
received.
THE pleuro- pneumonia which has been
raging in the upper part of West Chester
County, n. Y, has attacked the cattle at
| Throggs Neck. The State officials have
been notified and a strict quarantine is
esta bllshed. The infected animals will
| be killed at once.
| THE ''boodle' aldermen in Montreal APP
| pear very much disconnected over
Sharpe's conviction. They refu Sc to see
reporters, but their friends say they feel
| badly, as they consider their stay is in
definitely prolonged. Moioney, however,
| appears as happy as a cricket.
IT is stated at the White House that the
| President has decided to attend the CEN
| tennial celebration at Clinton, n. Y, on
the 18th prox., but beyond that he has not
yet completed his arrangements for the
| summer. He drives out to his summer
| residence at Oak View every afternoon, as
| usual, and returns to the White Ke1se in
| the morning.
REPORTS in circulation with regard to
excitement and race troubles in Green
| vile and Pickens Counties, s. c., greatly
exaggerated the condition of affairs.
| There is some local uneasiness, but no OK
| pectation of a collision. The coaored
| people and some of the whites are form
| ing labor Associations, but no violence is
| even remotely probable.
A TRAIN carrying two thousand school
| children on an excursion on the Indianap-
oils q Vincennes railroad, on the 30th,
| narrowly escaped destruction. The rot
| ten tam bers of a bridge gave way beneath
| the heavy train, and the cars sunk two
feet, with jerk, when they were luckily
arrested by some other timbers and a
wholesale ''slaughter Of the lunocents"
| averted-